Another Meat-Head Runs Into a Telephone Pole With His Mustang

"flying lap" (flyinglap) 06/14/2015 at 13:52 • Filed to: None

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Pretty sure this guy’s agenda didn’t include totaling his Mustang by doing a burnout into a non-moving telephone pole.

Tareim - V8 powered > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 13:55

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#REKT

SLK > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 13:57

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Is it just me or did I hear him hit the gas mid spin?

Wobbles the Mind > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 14:08

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Thus why we get a bunch of FWD vehicles and I4s...

PS9 > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 14:31

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New rule; if you wreck your powerful RWD car when showing off after leaving an auto show or gathering, your next car must be a FWD diesel 3 cylinder compact with no more than 60HP at the wheels.

Birddog > PS9 06/14/2015 at 14:37

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I think we should bring back the Pink Yaris Of Shame.

Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 14:38

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Well he remembered not hit the brakes. He didn’t remember to counter-steer properly, however.

Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment > PS9 06/14/2015 at 14:39

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We’d all be riding bicycles if we were never allowed to screw up though

Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment > SLK 06/14/2015 at 14:39

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He was trying to throttle out, but it was already a little too late.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 14:57

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Perfect handbrake parking.

SLK > Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment 06/14/2015 at 15:00

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Haha so his folly was trying to save it?

G_Body_Man: Sponsored by the number 3 > Birddog 06/14/2015 at 15:10

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What about the Blurple Mirage CVT of shame?

JGrabowMSt > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 15:42

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Now available in convenient travel sized keychain!

PS9 > Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment 06/14/2015 at 15:56

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Don’t know about you, but none of my car related screw-ups involved my car crossing into the other side of the road and hitting a pole. It’s pretty easy to avoid doing that. I have no sympathy at all for those who can’t resist.

boxrocket > flying lap 06/14/2015 at 16:05

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Not necessarily totalled. Expensive, seeing as the quarter panel and rear suspension will need replacement.

wkiernan > PS9 06/14/2015 at 16:33

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Such a yoick doesn’t deserve a great 60HP car like one of these!

I know you’re saying “but that has spark plugs!” but I’m pretty sure you can get one of these to Diesel if you drive it slow in town for a few months and let carbon accumulate in the cylinders. If I remember right the owner’s manual actually advises you to take it out and run it flat out for a little while every now and again to cure this.

With instructions like that they didn’t have to tell me twice! I used to take my ‘67 Monte Carlo to US19 in North Pasco, which way back then ran through miles of nearly uninhabited wilderness, all pine woods or cypress swamps on either side of the road, and floor it for aboout 45 seconds straight. You should have seen the smoke! No cops could catch me because they couldn’t see me. Besides, it was a public service for the few locals; it probably killed every damn mosquito within a quarter mile of the right-of-way line.

pip bip - choose Corrour > flying lap 06/15/2015 at 05:44

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douchebag got his comeuppance!

there is a god.

Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment > PS9 06/17/2015 at 00:53

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Alright, but that just means you’re lucky. You might hit a patch of black ice one night and panic and then that will happen (although I truly hope it doesn’t)...point being, we’re humans, we’re not perfect. Expecting perfection is silly and impossible.

Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment > SLK 06/17/2015 at 00:57

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His biggest folly looks to be that he counter steered like, 10x too slow.

PS9 > Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment 06/17/2015 at 06:42

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No, it doesn’t mean I’m ‘lucky’. It means I’m a competent driver who has consideration for the safety of myself and others while out on the road, and does everything he can to maintain full control of the vehicle at all times. That’s the bare freaking minimum expected of everyone operating a vehicle, and the Mustang driver in the video obviously didn’t meet that bar here.

Stop trying to spin this as some kind of super-common freak accident that is bound to happen to everyone. The driver’s loss of control here is 100% the product of his actions and was completely preventable. You can’t compare that to a loss of control due to external factors like black ice for obvious reasons.

point being, we’re humans, we’re not perfect. Expecting perfection is silly and impossible.

‘Competence’ is the word you are looking for here. You don’t need to be a perfect driver to know why doing a burnout on a publicly accessible road is a bad idea that might have nasty consequences, the least of which is a wrecked mustang and a bent telephone poll.

Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment > PS9 06/18/2015 at 23:00

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I’m sorry but you cannot make a rational argument that you’re immune from making mistakes because you’ve evaluated yourself and discovered that you’re an excellent, infallible driver. That’s all I’m pointing out...people make mistakes. God knows I’ve made more than a few while driving.

PS9 > Evan, Pope Of Jalopnik by Self-Appointment 06/19/2015 at 04:12

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I didn’t say I was an ‘excellent, infallible driver’. I said I was a COMPETENT driver. A burnout isn’t a mistake. It’s a choice. Choices have consequences, and the consequences of a burnout might be the loss of car control resulting in a wreck. Not choosing to do one on a public road isn’t evidence of perfect touched-by-the-hand-of-god driving skills; it’s what is expected of someone who is allowed to operate a motor vehicle on road accessible to the public. It’s the bare bloody minimum.

I said this before and I will say it again; you are required to operate your vehicle in a manner that does not endanger yourself and others on the road. Choosing not to do that is choosing the consequences as well. Stop characterizing that as something only a perfect infallible person can do. It’s the bare minimum of what is expected of everyone on the road, and we don’t need to make excuses for someone just because they might be a jalop.